Improvement in attachments for feeding straw to furnaces



GPTABER. v Attachment for Feeding Straw to Furnaces.

-No.196,839. Patented Nov. '6, I877.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOYAL c. TABER, OF EATON, NEW YORK.

IMPROl/EMENT IN ATTACHMENTS FOR FEEDING STRAW TO FURNACES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 96539, dated November6, 1877; application filed- March 29, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOYAL G. TABER, of Eaton, in the county of Madisonand State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inAttachments for Feeding Straw and other Light Matter to Steam-Boilersand other Furnaces as Fuel, which improvement is fully set forth in thefollowing specification and accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 isa perspective View of a boiler .with my improvement attached. Fig. 2 isa D represents one of three projecting arms or iron bars from the innerend of tube B,

which support the fuel after it passes into the furnace.

The feeding of the aforesaid fuel is ordinarily done by a stoker. Itmay, however, be

conveyed to and forced through the tube by any well-known mechanism.

When not in use, tube B may be removed and furnace-door 0 closed.

Having thus described my invention, what I- claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The tube B, provided with projecting arms D, substantially as and forthe purposes set forth.

' v n LOYAL c. TABER.

Witnesses:

WALTER MoRsE, JOHN T. WHITNEY.

